by editor | Nov 18, 2009 | Afghanistan, Politics, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman A colleague in the UK military recently sent an e-mail remarking on the brewing controversy in the UK about casualties from the war in Afghanistan. Growing numbers of citizens are witnessing “repatriations” of dead soldiers, and Prime...
by editor | Nov 7, 2009 | Counterterrorism, Media, Research, Terrorism 2.0
by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline...
by lundry | Nov 4, 2009 | Framing, Indonesia, Sensemaking, Sharia
by Chris Lundry and Steven R. Corman On September 30th, an earthquake struck Padang, Indonesia. It measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale, killed over 1,100, and injured around 2000. Following the quake some religious leaders moved quickly to blame the victims, a familiar...